Reply to 5 year old soaking through pjs every night!

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "5 year old soaking through pjs every night! "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a 7yo heavy sleeper who was still waking up with heavy overnight diapers size 6, despite limiting fluids, etc.  The few times she didn't have a diaper, she'd soak the sheets and not wake up.  Only once recently did she wake up dry w/o a diaper.

After many discussions with spouse, we decided to do away with the diapers.  I was skeptical and wanted to do an alarm, but he wanted to try it.  We did a dream pee at 11.  Lots of stripping off top layer of sheets in the middle of the night or morning, and lots of laundry.

After lots of sleep disruption over several weeks, we started to see that she was staying dry sometimes.  After several months, we finally stopped the dream pee.  A year and a half later, she's always dry at night.

I don't know if the no-diaper intervention helped hasten things, or whether she was outgrowing it anyway.  Just our anecdote.[/quote]

^^That is solid parenting. Do the hard work![/quote]

I disagree. This seems like stupid parenting to me. Why literally lose sleep over something you cannot fix? I mean if you had said it was 2 weeks and then she was good, that's one thing, but a year and a half?? That is crazy talk.[/quote]

"Stupid" PP here.  To clarify, it was several months (maybe 6 mos; can't recall given the fog of that time) before she started waking up dry frequently enough for us to risk stopping the dream pees.

Over the next few months, she had occasional accidents; typically when schedule was disrupted, etc.  Usually the accidents were small and didn't soak through the sheets, just wet underwear.

These tapered off and now it's a year and a half later and she's been dry for a while with no accidents.  The last one I recall was late spring.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics